🚀 create-exbackend-app

A powerful Express.js backend boilerplate generator CLI with flexible configuration options, TypeScript support, MongoDB (with Mongoose/Prisma), auto-structured folders, and more.

✨ Features

• ⚡ Express.js scaffolding with clean architecture
• ✅ Supports both JavaScript and TypeScript
• ✅ Choose between Prisma or Mongoose
• ✅ Automatically installs dependencies
• ✅ Beautified CLI prompts and output
• ✅ Prettier + ESLint ready
• ✅ Fully customizable template structure
• 📂 Folder structure with:
  • src/config
  • src/controllers
  • src/routes
  • src/models
  • src/services
  • src/middlewares
• 📊 Logging with morgan
• 🛡️ CORS and Cookie-Parser setup
• ✅ Installs latest versions of all packages

🧭 Usage

Using npx (recommended)

npx create-exbackend-app

Or install globally

npm install -g create-exbackend-app
create-exbackend-app

📋 CLI Prompts

When you run the CLI, it will ask:

1. Enter your project name:

   • Type a name (e.g., my-api)
   • Or just press enter to use default: my-app

2. Which language do you want to use?

   • Express + TS (TypeScript)
   • Express + JS (JavaScript)

3. Which ORM/ODM setup do you want?

   • Prisma
   • Mongoose

Your choices will generate a fully working backend boilerplate in seconds 🚀

📁 Project Structure

my-app/
├── src/
│   ├── config/
│   ├── controllers/
│   ├── middlewares/
│   ├── models/
│   ├── routes/
│   ├── services/
│   └── app (file)
├── .env
├── package.json
├── .prettierrc
├── .gitignore
├── .eslintrc.json
├── tsconfig.json (if TypeScript)
├── index (file)
└── README.md

📦 Scripts

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Run Start
npm run start

🧰 Requirements

• Node.js >= 18.x
• npm >= 9.x

🤝 Contributing

Have a suggestion or found a bug? Open an issue or PR — all contributions are welcome!

✍️ Author

Made with 💻 and ☕ by Mashruf Ahmed